Ayesha Green
Ayesha Green sustains a provocative engagement with processes of reproduction. She utilises mimicry and copying to undermine the authority of symbolic objects, questioning the authenticity of their claims to power.
Ayesha Green (Ngāti Kahungunu, Kai Tahu) is a contemporary Māori Artist. Born 1987 Ōtautahi Christchurch, she lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.
Working across painting, drawing, and sculpture, Ayesha examines histories of Māori and Pākehā representation, often questioning the particular ‘truths’ or myths they perpetuate. Her practice co-opts culturally loaded images from the history of Aotearoa—by the likes of Benjamin West, Isaac Coates, Marcus King, and Gordon Walters—and breaks them down to their pictorial elements, drawing attention to the systems of power that bestow them with value. Through subtle acts of mirroring and repositioning, she upends the supposed stability of images and their claims to a collective identity.
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A process of Dispossession, 2024View more details
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Absolute Cruelty, 2024View more details
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Ariel as a human, 2024View more details
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Flounder, 2024View more details
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I dedicate this song, 2024View more details
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Loves me, Loves me not, 2024View more details
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Māori Rights are Human Rights, 2024View more details
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Mātauraka Māori is Cool, 2024View more details
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Never, 2024View more details
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Our Obligations, 2024View more details
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Please do not deceive me, 2024View more details
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Scuttle, 2024View more details
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Sebastian, 2024View more details
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Stories from the Museum, 2024View more details
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The world that men have built, 2024View more details
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There is Power in Grief, 2024View more details
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Māori Rd, 2022View more details
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Plymouth and Lake Ellesmere, 2022View more details
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Queen St, 2022View more details
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River Thames and View Hill, 2022View more details
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Mum in Rarotonga, 2018View more details
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Nana in Rarotonga, 2018View more details
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Still life with pohutukawa, 2014View more details
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Mother Grandmother, 2022View more details
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Granddaughter Daughter, 2022View more details
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Daughter Mother, 2022View more details
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Agnes, 2021View more details
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All of my Lovers are Immigrants (Smooth my Pillow) (diptych), 2020View more details
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Ayesha, 2019View more details
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Ayesha, 2021View more details
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Ayesha #1, 2021View more details
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Ayesha #3 , 2021View more details
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Ayesha Lukas and Jordan at Nana and Granddads, 2019View more details
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Bathroom, 2019View more details
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Bedroom, 2019View more details
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Bouquet for Jameela #1, 2021View more details
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Bouquet for Jameela #2, 2021View more details
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Bouquet for Jameela #3, 2021View more details
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Bouquet for Jameela #5, 2021View more details
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Buckingham, 2019View more details
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Calystegia Tuguriorum (1), 2022View more details
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Calystegia Tuguriorum (2), 2022View more details
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Catherine, 2019View more details
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Christina, 2019View more details
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Corokia Buddleioides, 2022View more details
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (13 February), 2020View more details
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (21 March), 2020View more details
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (9 March), 2020View more details
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Dear Ayesha, Love From Joseph (November 3rd), 2020View more details
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Eve Eats (Cook’s Scurvy-Grass),, 2020View more details
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Eve Eats (New Zealand Spinach), 2020View more details
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For Hine, 2017View more details
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Fossils (Things in the Ground), 2019View more details
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Hebe Hulkeana, 2022View more details
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Hebe Stricta, 2022View more details
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I thought I heard you crying in the Forest, 2020View more details
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Imagined Communities, 2022View more details
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In the beginning, 2021View more details
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Jasmine, 2022View more details
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Kensington, 2019View more details
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Kowhaea, 2023View more details
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Kurawaka, 2020View more details
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Landscape Painting, 2020View more details
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Lukas Jordan and Ayesha at the beach, 2019View more details
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Metrosideros Carminea, 2022View more details
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Metrosideros excelsa, 2022View more details
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Mother, 2021View more details
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Mum (May 1985), 2020View more details
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Mum on her wedding day, 2021View more details
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My GST Number, 2022View more details
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My mother (thinking of the horizon), 2020View more details
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My Ngāi Tahu Number, 2022View more details
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Myrtle, 2022View more details
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Nana and Grandad, 1994 (New Zealand Gothic), 2016View more details
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Nana on her wedding day, 2021View more details
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New dress from nana and grandad, 2022View more details
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Olearia Ilicifolia, 2022View more details
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Outside, 2019View more details
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Passport #1, 2021View more details
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Passport #2, 2021View more details
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Passport #3, 2021View more details
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Piper Excelsum, 2022View more details
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Pomaderris Kumeraho, 2022View more details
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Primrose, 2022View more details
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Retribution (diptych), 2021View more details
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Rhabdothamnus Solandri, 2022View more details
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Richmond, 2019View more details
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Scenic Beauty, 2020View more details
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Self-Portrait as Joseph Banks, 2022View more details
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Senecio Greyi, 2022View more details
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Soil from Papa (diptych), 2018View more details
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Solanum Aviculare, 2022View more details
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Standing at the Beginning, 2021View more details
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The arrival of Mere, 2021View more details
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The cultural biography of things, 2017View more details
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The Harvest, 2020View more details
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The Princes New Toy, 2022View more details
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The Rupture (diptych), 2022View more details
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The science of ideas, 2021View more details
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The Treaty , 2022View more details
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Two Māori Boys in an English Field, 2022View more details
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Untitled, 2021View more details
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Wild Flowers (Things that Grow), 2019View more details
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Editions
9 May - 1 Jun 2024Jhana Millers is pleased to present their first print exhibition featuring a group of represented artists.Read more -
Ayesha Green, The Radical Utopia of the Great Pacific
14 Mar - 6 Apr 2024Jhana Millers is pleased to present their third solo exhibition with Ayesha Green (Ngāti Kahungunu, Kai Tahu).Read more -
FIVE
7 - 29 Jul 2023Jhana Millers is pleased to present a group exhibition of work by the gallery's represented artists to celebrate the gallery's 5th anniversaryRead more -
Ayesha Green, Folk Nationalism
City Gallery, Wellington 1 Jul - 15 Oct 2023Ayesha Green, Folk Nationalism at the City Gallery, WellingtonRead more -
Screaming Waterfall — Ayesha Green, Harry Culy, Tyne Gordon, Lily McRae, Georgia Arnold
13 - 29 Oct 2022Jhana Millers presents a group exhibition with new work to the gallery by five artistsRead more -
Ayesha Green, Folk Nationalism, Tauranga Art Gallery
27 Aug - 12 Dec 2022Ayesha Green, Folk Nationalism at the Tauranga Art GalleryRead more -
Self by Others, Ayesha Green, Elisabeth Pointon, Christopher Ulutupu, Claudia Kogachi, Caitlin Devoy, Robbie Handcock
1 - 18 Dec 2021Group Exhibition, Self by Others. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE
9 - 31 Jul 2021Group Exhibition, THE BIG THREE. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Ayesha Green, Good Citizen
13 May - 5 Jun 2021Ayesha Green, Good Citizen. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.Read more -
Auckland Art Fair, The Right Place?
24 - 28 Feb 2021Auckland Art Fair, The Right Place?. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Group Exhibition, He Tohu
18 Jun - 11 Jul 2020He Tohu, Ayesha Green, Kauri Hawkins, Maioha Kara, Nikau Hindin. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more -
Ayesha Green, Elizabeth the First
1 - 24 Aug 2019Ayesha Green, Elizabeth the First. Exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, Aotearoa New ZealandRead more
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Ayesha Green is the recipient of the Harriet Friedlander New York residency
ARTNOW, September 12, 2024 -
Once upon a time: On The radical utopia of the Great Pacific by Ayesha Green
Commissioned textFrancis McWhannell, March 13, 2024 -
50 things collectors should know | Ayesha Green
Francis McWhannell, Art Collector, January 1, 2024 -
The simultaneity of things
Hanahiva Rose, Folk Nationalism and other stories , July 1, 2023 -
Firmly rooted in place: the rise of rock art in contemporary toi Māori praxis
Sarah Hudson, Folk Nationalism and other stories, July 1, 2023 -
A Truer Picture
Francis McWhannell, Folk Nationalism and other stories, July 1, 2023 -
Imagined Communities
Lachlan Taylor, Folk Nationalism and other stories, July 1, 2023 -
Looking at a green field, for two Māori boys
Matariki Williams, Folk Nationalism and other stories , July 1, 2023 -
Huriawa Pā, February 7th, 2023
Madison Kelly, Jess Nicholson and Moewai Marsh, Folk Nationalism and other stories, July 1, 2023 -
Against Malaise, Pacific artists Respond to Poetry
Samuel te Kani, Art New Zealand, March 1, 2023 -
Making Waves
Sharon Stephenson, KIAORA by AirNZ, March 1, 2023 -
TO RENDER LIFE DELIGHTFUL. A POSY FOR AYESHA, ALICIA AND LAURA
SIMON GENNARD, Gus Fisher , February 10, 2023 -
HISTORY AT OUR TABLE
Matariki Williams , McCahon House , December 10, 2022 -
Find identity through mimicry
ArtZone, December 1, 2022 -
Folk Nationalism
Art News New Zealand, September 1, 2022 -
PAEMANU: TAURAKA TOI
Caitlin Donnelly, Lucy Hammonds, Kiri Jarden, ArtNow, June 30, 2022 -
Meet the maker: Visual artist Ayesha Green
Shandelle Battersby, Stuff, June 3, 2022 -
The psychogeographers' Dream
David Eggleton, Art New Zealand -
Undermining the original, copying to create: an interview with Ayesha Green
Lucinda Bennett -
Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art
Edited By Nigel Borell , Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art , March 16, 2022 -
Constructions & Reconstructions – a conversation with Ayesha Green
Matthew Galloway, Pan Publications, December 15, 2021 -
Toi Tū Toi Ora Artist Profile: Ayesha Green
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, November 1, 2021 -
250 years of New Zealand Painting
Docking, Dunn and Hanfling, October 11, 2021 -
Ayesha Green: Ways of Seeing
Rose of Sharon Leake, Art Edit AU, June 1, 2021 -
Ayesha Green, Good Citizen
Matariki Williams, Exhibition essay, May 13, 2021 -
Reparative Intimacy
Robyn Maree Pickens, Art Now, March 26, 2021 -
Imperial Vegetables, Lachlan Taylor on Ayesha Green’s I thought I heard you crying in the forest
Lachlan Taylor, The Art Paper, February 24, 2021 -
Meet Ayesha Green, The Artist Unearthing The Language Of Flowers
Ginny Fisher, Viva, February 24, 2021 -
Shaping Aotearoa
Issac Taylor, M2Women, September 23, 2020 -
Public art work to function as gateway
Grant Miller, Otago Daily Times, June 10, 2020 -
A Constant Unpacking
Art News New Zealand, December 22, 2019 -
Nana's Birthday, by Ayesha Green, wins NZ Contemporary Arts Award
Radio New Zealand, August 2, 2019 -
The Origin of Table Manners
Elle Loui, Matters Aotearoa, Issue 8, August 1, 2019 -
Issue 89
Francis McWhannell, Art Collector, July 1, 2019 -
Māori Girl
Tia Pohatu, Hamster, Issue 4, May 1, 2019 -
Here and now, exhibition catalogue
Malcom Smith Gallery, September 28, 2018 -
Ayesha Green - Dunedin
Edward Hanfling, Art New Zealand, Issue 169, September 23, 2018 -
(Un)conditional III
Jamie Hanton, The physics room, August 2, 2018 -
Ayesha Green
Lucinda Bennett, Art Collector Issue 84, April 1, 2018 -
(Un)conditional II
Sarah McClintock and Jamie Hanton, The Physics room, March 18, 2018 -
Art Zone Interview
Lily Hacking, ArtZone, January 16, 2018 -
Greener Pastures
Lily Hacking, ArtZone, Issue 70, July 1, 2017